BS: Tsunami

Subject: BS: Tsunami
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 08:40 AM

Tsunami

Subject: RE: BS: Tsunami
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 09:06 AM

It will be about an hour before the experts will know where and how bad the wave will be. Helps to have a warning system in place though.

Subject: RE: BS: Tsunami
From: gnu
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 11:30 AM

Just heard the news : no tsunami danger.

Subject: RE: BS: Tsunami
From: SINSULL
Date: 26 Dec 06 - 05:12 PM

Tsunami was a no show. Happy New Year!

Subject: RE: BS: Tsunami
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 18 - 01:00 PM

NOW there has been a tsunami -- in Indonesia.

Subject: RE: BS: Tsunami
From: keberoxu
Date: 29 Sep 18 - 05:41 PM

Here's the report from the BBC.

This tsunami even wrecked one hospital

Subject: BS: Tsunami, 2018, Indonesia
From: keberoxu
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 01:00 PM

The latest from Reuters.

time running out to find survivors

Subject: RE: BS: Tsunami
From: Jack Campin
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 01:56 PM

When the huge tsunami hit the Indian Ocean in 2004, people in Portobello (beachside suburb of Edinburgh) did fundraising with the slogan "What if it happened to Porty?" - with none of it more than a few feet above sea level, the result would have been like a lot of those places in Sri Lanka or Indonesia.

With this one, my first thought was Lochgilphead - same geography as Palu, at the head of a firth, and similarly vulnerable if anything went splat in the Firth of Clyde.

Subject: RE: BS: Tsunami
From: Iains
Date: 02 Oct 18 - 03:10 PM

The death toll was a tragedy that could have been avoided.
"The early warning system that might have prevented some deaths in the tsunami that hit an Indonesian island on Friday has been stalled in the testing phase for years.

The high-tech system of seafloor sensors, data-laden sound waves and fiber-optic cable was meant to replace a system set up after an earthquake and tsunami killed nearly 250,000 people in the region in 2004.

But inter-agency wrangling and delays in getting just 1 billion rupiah ($69,000) to complete the project mean the system hasn't moved beyond a prototype developed with $3 million from the U.S. National Science Foundation."
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After a 2004 tsunami killed 230,000 people in a dozen countries, more than half of them in the Indonesian province of Aceh, a concerted international effort was launched to improve tsunami warning capabilities, particularly in the Indian Ocean and for Indonesia, one of world's most earthquake and tsunami-prone countries.

Part of that drive, using funding from Germany and elsewhere, included deploying a network of 22 buoys connected to seafloor sensors to transmit advance warnings.

A sizeable earthquake off Sumatra island in 2016 that caused panic in the coastal city of Padang revealed that none of the buoys costing hundreds of thousands of dollars each were working. They'd been disabled by vandalism or theft or just stopped working due to a lack of funds for maintenance."

But there is a good case to be made for many if not all coastal areas to have tsunami warning systems in place. From Long Island to Scotland studies have uncovered evidence of massive ancient tsunamis.
It is estimated 55 to 60% of the US population lives near the coast.
http://www.jcronline.org/doi/full/10.2112/07A-0017.1?code=cerf-site

Wiki(but by no means comprehensive

http://www.jcronline.org/doi/full/10.2112/07A-0017
and the UK, esp. Scotland

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160323-the-terrifying-tsunami-that-devastated-britain